Improving Resilience to Climate Change

The programme seeks to contribute to strengthening resilience to climate extremes by improving the ability of communities and governments to adapt to changes, anticipate what might happen next and absorb climate shocks when they do come along. We support different types of studies. We welcome descriptive studies meant to clarify the mechanisms for reducing vulnerability to climate change. We also seek intervention studies that improve the measurement of resilience in ways that will enhance the works of researchers,practitioners, or policy makers.

Improving the Use of Research Evidence

We seek to empower fellows to build theory and empirical evidence on ways to strengthen the connections between research evidence, decision making, and climate change adaptation and preparedness. Our focus on improving the use of research evidence aims to identify, create, and test strategies to ensure that research reaches the hands of decision makers, answers their most pressing questions, and is used in ways that benefit vulnerable communities in Africa.

Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice

In addition to awarding research, career-development, and mentoring grants in our three primary focus areas, we seek to strengthen connections between research, policy, and practice through limited communications and capacity-building activities. Through the programme, we seek to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to improve decision making in the area of climate change adaptation and preparedness.

T he Africa Climate Leadership Program (AfriCLP) is a grants awards program that recognizes and incentivizes exemplary individuals and organizations to build leadership capacity in response to climate change.

The program will address climate change adaptation research, policy challenges and practical climate solutions. This will enable adaptation and mitigation decision-making that is based on the best available scientific knowledge and tried and tested solutions. It will do so by identifying climate change leaders; conducting training seminars for all the selected fellows; using research and practical evidence to inform active and ongoing policy formulation, reviewing or implementing processes within policy fellows’ work environment (where there is an existing “policy window of opportunity”) and providing appropriate advice in an action research mode; implementing practical climate solutions in an action research mode; carrying out advanced climate research; designing and implementing regional knowledge sharing and strengthening strategies; and convening national and regional science-policy-practice dialogues.

The Programme is funded by IDRC and managed by the University of Nairobi and the Institute of Resource Assessment (IRA) - University of Dar es Salaam. The program aims to build on past research to achieve sustainability and impact at scale.

More information on the Policy Track, can be found here

Eligibility

The program is targeting exceptional ladies in policy advisors/analysts and practitioners who have the drive and potential to become leaders in their field, allowing them to develop and test their ideas that can scale and strengthen their leadership capacity.

Submission Details

Applications to be an AfriCLP Fellow will not be considered complete until all required materials are received by the AfriCLP Secretariat:

● Project concept note (5 pages maximum; attach a PDF)
● Project budget { Template provided}
● Institutional Support Form (to be sent by the institution directly to the Secretariat)
● Two (2) Reference forms (to be sent by the referees directly to the Secretariat)
● Academic certificates

Important Dates:

Submission: 30th May 2018

Notification: 30th June 2018.

Contact Details

Email address: mnjue@uonbi.ac.ke